Show HN Daily Selection (2025-09-01)
- Anonymous Age Verification
- Oaki–job finder and resume maker
- How to create and use Tesseract OCR in Rust programming language?
- Pitaya – Orchestrate AI coding agents like Claude Code
- Pol/ite – /pol/ but posts are all polite
- I made a game called "Funeral of Freiren."
- A WebPDF Reader with AI assistance, for research and studying
- ThisTouristDoesNotExist (virtual tourists at real landmarks)
- A01 – personal news agent to follow anything
- Game to play and learn music visually
- I made an English version of the game "Funeral of Freiren"
Anonymous Age Verification [Finance]
43 points, 59 comments
Anonymous age verification using bank KYC data to confirm age without sharing personal details.
- Leverages existing bank KYC checks to verify age for restricted sites
- Uses WebAuthn for secure credential creation and authentication
- Minimal infrastructure required, virtually free to implement
- Banks can be incentivized to participate with small payments
- Maintains user anonymity while providing necessary age claims (e.g., over_18, over_21)
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Oaki–job finder and resume maker [Business]
4 points, 0 comments
Oaki is a job finder and resume maker that simplifies job applications with AI-powered tailored resumes and personalized job matching.
- Quickly build or import modern, eye-catching resumes in under 2 minutes
- Set job preferences (role, location, salary, etc.) for personalized job matching
- AI generates slightly tailored resumes for each job application
- Uses safe AI practices, avoiding spam or generic applications
- Combines ML, LLMs, orchestration, and hybrid search for optimal job matching
- Free job finder with a no-credit-card trial; paid AI-generated resumes/applications
- Offers a 20% discount with code
ICAMEFROMHN20
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How to create and use Tesseract OCR in Rust programming language? [Developer Tools]
3 points, 0 comments
One-sentence summary: A guide on using the Rusty Tesseract library to build an invoice processing API with Tesseract OCR in Rust.
- Uses Rusty Tesseract for OCR functionality
- Focuses on invoice processing applications
- Provides a step-by-step implementation guide
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Pitaya – Orchestrate AI coding agents like Claude Code [Developer Tools]
4 points, 0 comments
Pitaya is a local, open-source orchestrator for AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex CLI.
- Runs multiple agents in parallel
- Isolates each agent in Docker with its own git branch
- Supports pluggable Python strategies
- Persists state for resumable runs
- Includes quickstart and demo in README
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Pol/ite – /pol/ but posts are all polite [ChatBots]
5 points, 0 comments
One-sentence summary: Pol/ite is a tool that uses an LLM to rewrite 4chan posts to be polite while preserving their original meaning and tone.
- Rewrites fringe political posts to be polite
- Preserves original meaning and tone
- Maintains formatting (markdown, links, greentext)
- Uses Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite for concise outputs
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I made a game called "Funeral of Freiren." [Entertainment]
3 points, 0 comments
Funeral of Freiren is a game showcased on Hacker News.
- No additional details or key features provided in the post.
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A WebPDF Reader with AI assistance, for research and studying [Education]
5 points, 6 comments
AI-powered PDF reader for research and studying with contextual understanding of text and images.
- AI assistance for asking questions about text and images
- Context-aware responses based on reading material
- Upcoming features: highlighting, notes, bibliography, reference file opening
- Open beta for feedback and bug reporting
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ThisTouristDoesNotExist (virtual tourists at real landmarks) [Image]
6 points, 2 comments
AI-generated virtual tourists at real landmarks.
- Generates a new synthetic tourist at a real landmark on each refresh
- Maintains consistent identity cues across scenes
- Uses Gemini 2.5 Flash Image for generation
- Runs on a lightweight DigitalOcean setup
- Avoids repeating face-landmark combinations
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A01 – personal news agent to follow anything [Productivity]
3 points, 0 comments
A personal news agent that delivers tailored content by matching your custom prompts against 2,000+ RSS feeds using vector search.
- Ingests 2,000+ RSS feeds hourly from sources like The Verge, NYT, Nature, and arXiv
- Uses Voyage embeddings for semantic matching of content
- Delivers updates hourly based on user-defined interests (e.g., AI, crypto, research papers)
- Available on iOS with Android sign-up option
- Focuses on niche topics without algorithmic noise
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Game to play and learn music visually [Education]
4 points, 0 comments
A visual music-learning game for kids that uses colored balloons to represent notes and timing.
- Uses color and position of balloons to represent musical notes
- Distance between balloons indicates timing
- Teaches recognition of classical pieces and composers
- Designed for kids (ages 3-6) but enjoyable for adults too
- Optimized for tablet use
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I made an English version of the game "Funeral of Freiren" [Entertainment]
4 points, 1 comments
English version of the game "Funeral of Freiren".
- Translated from original language
- Preserves original gameplay mechanics
- Accessible to English-speaking players